2016-04-05 04:02
by Reb Gutman Locks Spiritual Joy There are different levels of pleasure. Each is precious. The lowest level i… Read More
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2016-04-04 12:08
Sometimes in Israel they like coffee… a lot of coffee…a whole lot of coffee (a small office I was visiting)- via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DO… Read More
2016-04-03 12:59
On a number of occasions I’ve seen these parrots (or rather parakeets) flying wild in Israel. Near the airport there is a flock of hundreds, my son saw some in Haifa, and I caug… Read More
2016-04-03 04:30
by Reb Gutman Locks Buying Matzah Every year it's the same thing. I buy too much matzah! It's really great mat… Read More
2016-03-31 12:54
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Long time readers of Mystical Paths will know that I have posted many pictures of beautiful, interesting, or holy sites in the Land of Israel…almost all… Read More
2016-03-31 04:09
by Reb Gutman Locks Nothing Has Changed! The arab leaders and all other radical haters of Israel are not telling… Read More
2016-03-30 14:10
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Yet again on the vaccine controversy, a commentor shared a link that provided this… After being threatened by vaccine industry totalitarians and science… Read More
2016-03-29 04:14
by Reb Gutman Locks A Jewish Mother Three young Americans were in Jerusalem on their Birthright tr… Read More
2016-03-27 04:38
by Reb Gutman Locks What is Taking It to Your Heart? "Know this day and take it to your heart that Hashem is G… Read More
2016-03-24 19:56
Thank you to those who donated to our Purim Charity Campaign. Funds were distributed to the needy families on Purim by Tomchei Shabbos of Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel, and for those who w… Read More
2016-03-24 04:22
by Reb Gutman Locks It is so nice to have a good friend like you. - via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* supp… Read More
2016-03-23 20:28
Someone in our synagogue WhatsApp group asked, “How much do we need to bring for the machazit hashekel? Per person or per family? Kids included?” Explanation – On Purim we… Read More
2016-03-23 07:56
Walking through Mea Sharim singingby Reb Gutman Locks - via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* support us for free by shopping at Amazon - CLIC… Read More
2016-03-23 07:51
by Reb Gutman Locks Have a Happy PurimHaman the evil man serving Mordechai the righteous Jew through the streets of Shushan - via Mysti… Read More
2016-03-22 04:54
by Reb Gutman Locks Pour'em - Until What? [i] First published in Gutman's book on the weekly Torah portions; "From the… Read More
2016-03-20 04:22
by Reb Gutman Locks Egalitarian Prayer? "Egalitarian" means Democratic, free, classless, equal, open. So… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Why?by Reb Gutman Locks Every custom, and certainly all of the laws that have been handed down from generation to generation, are founded on good reason. Even those t… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
prophetic speculations by Dov bar Leib Freeing terrorists for “peace” is Neveilut (a form of reprobation)! Efron told Avraham, "What is 400 silver shekels between you and… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Starting Rosh Chodesh Nissan, we have a special opportunity for the mitzvah of blessing the fruit trees. Here Reb Nati & Rabbi Lazer Brody give us a demonstration… Direct v… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
via Lma’an Yishme’u Reb Mordechai of Chernobyl ("Reb Mottel Chernobiler") was a great Rebbe, son of Reb Nochum of Chernobyl. His first wife was the daughter of Reb Aharon Karlin… Read More
2016-03-17 04:52
by Reb Gutman Locks Thank G-d! What do you say when you see your friend come to the Kotel early in the mo… Read More
2016-03-15 20:55
When we moved to a new, literally new, and less expensive neighborhood in Israel last year, we encountered many neighbors in need. Many moved because of the lower costs…which me… Read More
2016-03-15 05:57
by YOUR-NAME at Mystical Paths- type article here -- via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* support us for free by shopping at Amazon - CLICK HERE * Read More
2016-03-14 14:54
In the latest Vice News (not a source I normally turn to), episode “Return to Yemen”, the interpret return to the war in Yemen… between a Yemeni tribe and the central gov… Read More
2016-03-13 04:51
by Reb Gutman Locks Brainwashed! Shmuli brought a young American tourist over to me and said, "He says that his… Read More
2016-03-10 04:54
by Reb Gutman Locks Can You Prove It? One of the boys working at the tefillin stand brought Alex over; "… Read More
2016-03-09 10:42
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths In Israel, my teenage daughters frequently ride the (public) bus. To school, to shopping, to Jerusalem. Certain times of day the bus is busy with young m… Read More
2016-03-08 09:08
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Frequent commentor Neshama wrote the following on our vaccine articles… …HaShem gave each of us an immune system to fight off disease. Your subtl… Read More
2016-03-08 04:40
by Reb Gutman Locks Mussar? A Charedi rabbi started publishing a new weekly booklet and someone has been handing them out at… Read More
2016-03-06 04:35
by Reb Gutman Locks Dancing with a Broom The man who davens (prays) next to me in the mornings looked very hap… Read More
2016-03-04 09:00
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths A reader interesting in making aliyah (Jewish family returning / moving to Israel) from the U.S. wrote me about some concerns and negative feedback they’v… Read More
2016-03-03 04:49
by Reb Gutman Locks Who Is Right? One of the more frustrating questions I face is; which study is r… Read More
2016-03-01 07:59
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Wheels within Wheels Prayer is a ladder to heaven.[1] It spans all the worlds, its feet in the physical and its he… Read More
2016-03-01 04:47
by Reb Gutman Locks Buddhism Shmuel asked if a certain online Hebrew meditation site wa… Read More
2016-02-29 07:58
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. & Inspired prayer – praying with Ruach HaQodesh The secret to prophecy, says Rav Hai Gaon, is knowing that yo… Read More
2016-02-28 07:57
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. & Connecting to G-d through the words and letters Another approach is to use the prayers’ words and letters… Read More
2016-02-28 04:54
by Reb Gutman Locks Abuse Noah wrote: I have a niece who is an adult now. She confided in me that she… Read More
2016-02-27 19:35
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths In my last article, “Orthodox Jews and Vaccines”, a number of commentors replied strongly against my position. Here’s some samples&hell&hell…Read More
2016-02-25 20:49
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Somehow there is a strange phenomenon of various “natural”, “new age”, “natural health”, and “anti-science” mov… Read More
2016-02-25 07:55
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. & Consciously repeating words and phrases We said earlier that repetition acts like a mantra on the mind. In the ti… Read More
2016-02-25 04:54
by Reb Gutman Locks Directing Your Heart We are told that the spiritual success of our mitzvahs will be… Read More
2016-02-24 07:54
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Specific methods of prayer meditation. & Praying with one idea: being before G-d As one of the great Chas… Read More
2016-02-23 07:52
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Theory and Technique The sages list ten types of prayer.[1] Each type corresponds to one of the Sefiroth, expressing a… Read More
2016-02-23 04:59
by Reb Gutman Locks Everyone Loves to Dance - via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* support us for free by sho… Read More
2016-02-22 07:51
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Laws and Customs The three daily prayers, Shach’rith, Minchoh and Ma’ariv, are meals for the soul. As… Read More
2016-02-21 07:50
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. One of the ways of redirecting and focusing the mind is through forming a periphery to one’s focus. The cons… Read More
2016-02-21 04:49
by Reb Gutman LocksDancing at 2:00 a.m. When King Dovid thanked Hashem for saving him he said, "You have turned my sorrow into dancing…"[i] The Lub… Read More
2016-02-18 07:49
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. What does bonding one’s soul with G-d mean? In an intriguing passage in the Talmud, three Rabbis comment tha… Read More
2016-02-18 05:02
by Reb Gutman Locks A Mirror Thirty years ago a friend saw that I was going to the market and said… Read More
2016-02-17 08:46
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths A commentor on an old video of mine on YouTube, Prayers for Jerusalem at the Hurva Synagogue , wrote: “Stewie Griffin : God bless Isreal! The killer of… Read More
2016-02-17 07:48
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. The Bond We start our prayers with this because it contains the three qualities necessary for genuine prayer: ▪ A… Read More
2016-02-16 07:47
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. How to attach to G-d through prayer Prayer is a very powerful and potent form of meditation. Just as Torah-learning has… Read More
2016-02-16 05:02
by Reb Gutman Locks You Shall Be Holy Hashem commands the Jewish people to be holy. "You shall be holy unt… Read More
2016-02-15 07:46
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Prayer and Laughter The name, Isaac, is also important. Both Abraham and Jacob prayed regularly. Yet Scriptur… Read More
2016-02-14 09:46
by Reb Aharon Rubin, from Eye to the Infinite, shared with permission. Prayer G-d’s Palace HE ONE TIME MEDITATION IS STATED IN THE TORAH is understood by our sages to refer to p… Read More
2016-02-14 05:02
by Reb Gutman Locks This is Why I Did It Yussi is a 40 year-old Israeli who had not put on tefillin since… Read More
2016-02-11 05:11
by Reb Gutman Locks Why Cry? I helped the father and his two sons with tefillin. They are from Argentina. The fathe… Read More
2016-02-10 10:44
by Reb Gutman Locks Poles A reader from Poland objected to my writing that I have heard that the Poles were… Read More
2016-02-10 09:12
by Reb Aharon Rubin, author of Eye to the Infinite at Mystical Paths 1. The mazal of chodesh Adar is דגים, fish. The word דג is the opposite order of the… Read More
2016-02-09 18:49
The following story is one of Reb Gutman Locks’s, and was recently published in the Living Jewish weekly Torah sheet in Israel… Late Shabbat afternoon, a father sat his seven-ye… Read More
2016-02-09 05:21
by Reb Gutman Locks He Says His Mother's Mother Was Jewish Three tourists walked into the Kotel area. They did not look Jewish… Read More
2016-02-07 05:45
…their experiences as Jewish students at the SOCC would soon inspire a rude awakening: the campus progressives who were “fighting for justice on college campuses for students of… Read More
2016-02-07 05:14
by Reb Gutman Locks Jews! Jews are an amazing people. When I asked this touri… Read More
2016-02-06 18:26
We were thrilled to see our own Reb Gutman Locks’s story covered in this week’s Hebrew Mishpacha magazine. It’s Hebrew, click the pic below to get it.- via Mystical P… Read More
2016-02-04 15:37
by Reb Akiva The modern world with it’s intertwinned technology and complicated systems, including government and company and so forth, often leave us with challenges. Even the t… Read More
2016-02-04 05:12
by Reb Gutman Locks I'll Wait a Few More Minutes It was very cold and rainy. I was standing to the side… Read More
2016-02-02 05:12
by Reb Gutman Locks Prayers Go to Heaven In my video, "Should Every Jew Move to Israel", I e… Read More
2016-02-01 10:45
Commentor S.M. emailed a news alert and commented… NEWS ALERT - Israeli Cabinet approves liberal Jewish prayer at holy site Israel's Cabinet voted Sunday to allow non-Orthodox Jewis… Read More
2016-02-01 09:21
The Jerusalem Post, and picked up by Voz Iz Neius, published an article titled “The New Zionists – Ultra-Orthodoxy has Effectively Surrendered to the Zionist Idea”. T… Read More
2016-01-31 09:51
via Reb Goldstein, as he heard from Rav Brizel… In a certain town there was a barber who did not believe in G-d. When asked why, he responded, "Look at all the sick people, look at al… Read More
2016-01-31 05:50
by YOUR-NAME at Mystical Paths- by Reb Gutman Locks Has the time come for all Jews from all over the World to come home?Is the promised Redemption really happening n… Read More
2016-01-30 18:15
Ami Magazine is a nice publication targeted at the English speaking ultra-orthodox Jewish community. Articles focus on issues of interest to the community, the lives of holy rabbis, T… Read More
2016-01-28 05:19
by Reb Gutman Locks Reform Jews There were a number of fairly negative comments to my article encouraging the can… Read More
2016-01-26 18:12
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths One of the hot topics in Orthodox Judaism in the past week is whether there is a significant bleeding of members of the ultra-orthodox community, particularly i… Read More
2016-01-26 05:20
by Reb Gutman LocksLet There Be Light Michael is the cantor in the largest Reform Temple in America. He reads my articles, has read one or two o… Read More
2016-01-24 18:20
I was at an interesting wine evening, with the wine maker of Shiloah winery in Israel discussing wine and wine making in Israel. It’s an interesting talk, though long, on how fai… Read More
2016-01-22 05:53
by YOUR-NAME at Mystical Paths- type article here -- via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* support us for free by shopping at Amazon - CLICK HERE * Read More
2016-01-21 15:54
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-21 09:27
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths The constant LIES wear everyone down, until they start to believe them. Let’s call a lie a lie. “SO HUMILIATING – Israeli soldiers forc… Read More
2016-01-21 05:16
by Reb Gutman Locks You Forced Me He was the only one in a fairly large group soldiers who refused to put on tefillin. He was… Read More
2016-01-20 15:52
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-19 15:38
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-19 05:14
by Reb Gutman Locks What Are These? They live in California, but the father is from the Ukraine. He knew what tefillin were… Read More
2016-01-18 15:36
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-18 09:58
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Stab a Jewish mother to death in front of her 3 children & home. FUN! SUCCESS! PRIDE! …if a single Jewish soldier, if a single Jew… Read More
2016-01-17 15:23
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-17 08:04
This is a very interesting talk by Ryan Bellerose, a native American (Indian) in Canada who is an Indigenous People activist and authority. And as he says, by every standard the Jewish… Read More
2016-01-17 05:15
by Reb Gutman Locks Changing It is very difficult to change a young man's mind, especially when it has to do with something that he ha… Read More
2016-01-15 03:18
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-14 17:09
Israel is an incredible land, the Holy Land. Whether it’s natural views changing from beach to desert to lake to mountains, or holy places, or ancient ruins, or modern technology… Read More
2016-01-14 05:24
by Reb Gutman Locks Special Every year a class of some 15 to 20 special friends stop by for breakfast. You cannot tell it by l… Read More
2016-01-12 10:02
On the article “When the Rabbi Falls Down”, which discusses a rabbi in Washington DC who did something very inappropriate and illegal, a commentor sent via Facebook… &ldq&helli…Read More
2016-01-12 05:13
by Reb Gutman Locks A Few Minutes The family is from Philadelphia. The father is a lawyer. This was the first time any o… Read More
2016-01-10 13:08
The “hot” (horrible) Jewish story of the day is “The Devastating Story of Washington’s Peeping-Tom Rabbi - When a politically connected rabbi was arrested, the news s… Read More
2016-01-10 05:21
by Reb Gutman Locks Change the World? A friend spent a lot of time and money to launch a sophisticated website dedicated to doing good in the world. It is… Read More
2016-01-07 16:29
by YOUR-NAME at Mystical Paths- type article here -- via Mystical Paths - mpaths.com -- Support Mystical Paths - DONATE HERE - or* support us for free by shopping at Amazon - CLICK HERE * Read More
2016-01-07 05:25
by Reb Gutman Locks Mazal Tov It is always a joy and a privilege to arrange a bar mitzvah. This Jew would… Read More
2016-01-05 06:29
by Reb Gutman Locks The "Spiritual World" Revisited A learned friend asked about my response to the Jew who was "seeing the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
by Reb Yehoshua Goldstein, Leilui Nishmat (in the merit of one who has passed) Shmuel ben Baruch HaLevi A"H and all the other passed on souls of Am Yisrael. We all know that when you need to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Ben Yehudah street in Jerusalem is an open air mall that’s tourist and entertainment oriented. Lots of stores selling Israeli jewelry, t-shirts, fashions, plus coffee shops, fast… Read More
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